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![When thinking about intersex/trans/GNC people, [tongue in cheek] I disagree with some whose work I l](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c071d3f6bdb31ff8d5202ff1d1824111/tumblr_p2v37fefwQ1uisfeqo1_1280.jpg "When thinking about intersex/trans/GNC people, [tongue in cheek] I disagree with some whose work I l")
When thinking about intersex/trans/GNC people, [tongue in cheek] I disagree with some whose work I look up to greatly, such as Eli Clare’s scholarship on disability, and believe we indeed need to work together to find a cure [/tongue in cheek]. It’s beyond time we invent a joint-cure for this useless and diseased binary society and it’s sick and unfit social engineers – those within the Medical Industrial Complex who perform harmful non-consensual “normalizing” procedures on intersex/trans/GNC kids such as Dr. Earl Cheng, a pediatric urologist at @luriechildrens who still defends and performd clitorecromies on intersex kids. Comment below other names of people in the Medical Industrial Complex who we need to cure. It’s time we #CUREtheMIC
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#intersex #intersexstories #intersexisbeautiful #toocutetobebinary #nonbinary #trans #gnc #queer #lgbtqia #lgbtqi #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbt #medicalindustrialcomplex #humanrights (at Chicago, Illinois)
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![[First photo were screaming: #FuckYoSurgery] Last night, people from all across the city (and countr](https://64.media.tumblr.com/638a49d846a041e5f78caa255237c842/tumblr_oye43nwwIw1uisfeqo1_1280.jpg "[First photo were screaming: #FuckYoSurgery] Last night, people from all across the city (and countr")
[First photo were screaming: #FuckYoSurgery] Last night, people from all across the city (and country) came together at the wonderful amazing @plusgallerychicago (support them w/ meetings & events!) and we drank tea, created banners/signs, and talked about why we support intersex people having the right to make THEIR OWN decisions about THEIR OWN bodies when it comes to hormones, gonadal and genital surgeries. Tomorrow, on Intersex Awareness Day, we’re bringing those banners, signs and our voices directly to one of the culprit’s doorsteps: Lurie Children’s Hospital (who’s Sex Development Program is still performing medically unnecessary surgeries!) located at 225 E. Chicago Ave at 12 noon. We need you there to support this growing movement. There’s a link in my bio with all the info about this specific demonstration. Thank you so much to everyone who came out last night. Special shoutout to youth of @mujereslatinasenacci for participating. I love you all very very much. Photos cc: @loveandstrugglephotos #LurieEndSurgery #endintersexsurgery
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#intersex #intersexstories #intersexawareness #intersexawarenessday #intersexawarenessmonth #intersexawarenessday2017 #iad2017 #iad #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbt #lgbtq #nonbinary #queer #gay #queeraf #gayaf #humanrights (at Plus Gallery Chicago)
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Is Gary Johnson the Candidate for us?? :) Click and read my blog :) He supports a woman’s choice to choose :) and Is respectful towards EVERYONE. Who am I kidding Anyone looks good next to Trump and Hill
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The Taliban has retaken control of Afghanistan!
As Taliban fighters took Kabul on Sunday evening, roaming through the halls of the abandoned presidential palace, the group issued a statement: It would soon revive Afghanistan’s former name.
The country that was built in the wake of the 2001 U.S. invasion at a cost of over $2 trillion would revert to the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.” (That’s the name the country bore between 1996 and 2001).
The Taliban, which means “students” in the Pashto language, have been waging an insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul since they were ousted from power in 2001.
The group was formed by “mujahideen” fighters who fought Soviet forces in the 1980s with the backing of the CIA.
Emerging in 1994 as one of several factions fighting a civil war, the Taliban gained control of much of the country by 1996 and imposed its own strict version of Sharia, or Islamic law.
Men were forced to grow beards. Women were forced to wear burqas, flowing garments that cover the entire face and body. Schools for girls were shuttered. Women who were unaccompanied in public places could be beaten. Soccer was banned. So was music, aside from religious chants. The Taliban government held public executions in Kabul’s Ghazi Stadium.
There were photos of children dying of preventable illnesses in a dilapidated pediatric hospital. Images of the ancient Buddhist statues pulverized by the Taliban because its leaders considered the stone images to be idolatrous. The sea of refugees and displaced people living in makeshift tents across the region.
The group is infamous for its use of suicide bombers and has been accused of assassinating top Afghan officials and holding kidnapped Western citizens for ransom.
Only four countries recognised the Taliban when it was last in power: neighbouring Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkemnistan.
After sheltering Osama bin Laden and key al Qaeda figures in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Taliban would fall after a US-led military coalition launched an offensive on 7 October 2001.
Despite being ousted from power, the Taliban would continue a guerrilla war against the Western-backed governments and US-led forces in the country.
Around 150,000 British military personnel have served in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, and 457 have been killed.
Also, 2,448 American service members have died in the conflict.
The Taliban entered into talks with the US in 2018 and struck a ‘peace’ deal in February 2020 which committed the US to withdraw its troops while preventing the Taliban from attacking US forces.
However, the Taliban have continued to kill Afghan security forces and civilians…
If there is 1 image that symbolized the brutality of the Taliban regime in 90s, it was that of a woman in a blue burqa being executed in public in KBL’s stadium.
An Afghan judge hits a woman with a whip in front of a crowd in Ghor province, Afghanistan August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Pajhwok News Agency.
A member of the Taliban’s religious police beating an Afghan woman in Kabul on August 26, 2001. The footage, filmed by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, can be seen at pz.rawa.org/rawasongs/movie/beating.mpg
The cover of the Aug. 9 issue of Time magazine features a photo of Aisha, an 18-year-old Afghan woman with a mutilated nose. Time Inc./AP
Women in Afghanistan this is so heartbreaking, to see women being treated like animals…
These are human rights crimes, violations of women’s rights.
We will keep talking about you.
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Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! The only time of year I’ll do a post like this. The reason being, haters have been attacking my account which severely limits my traffic and overall growth. Have you noticed my follower count is frozen? Who knows how long it will last
Left pic is 2019, the right is 2021. Who knew happiness was possible when I had subconsciously worked so hard to hide who I was. Oh, and in case you’re wondering why my chest tattoo is backwards in the left picture, it’s because it wasn’t taken with a mirror. I have a clicker in my right hand
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#trans #transdayofvisibility #transgirl #lingerie #pride #lgbt #lgbtq #loveislove #transgender #transmodel #humanrights #transgirl #transgirls #transgirlsofinstagram #transwoman #transwomen #transwomenarewomen #wontbeerased #humanrights #transrightsarehumanrights #transgendergirl #mtf #mtftransgender (at Miami Beach, Florida)
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Protested And It Felt GREAT! ⠀
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Babygirl To The Left Of Me Marched With Us With One Leg And Cruches IN THE RAIN!⠀
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#blacklivesmatter #feminism #socialjustice #intersectionalfeminism #blackhistory #blackgirlmagic #protest #activist #feminist #humanrights #resist #brooklyn #blackpower #equality #blkcreatives #blackblogger #lawofattraction #blackexcellence #blackwomen #blacklove #blackpride #blackhistory #melanin #blackgirls #problack #briannataylor #africanamerican #blackisbeautiful #blackamericatoday #georgefloydprotest (at Orlando, Florida)
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Václav Kudělka, “We don’t need your internet!”
Donate to support the Ukrainian Red Cross to help civilians in this difficult time for Ukraine. You can donate right now:
Donate page on the URCS website: redcross.org.ua/donate
iRaiser platform donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/ua/donate
(in Ukraine) SMS to the number 88033 Vodafone. The cost of a charity SMS is UAH 20.
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Here’s how you can support #reproductiverights for #birthing people near you.
https://www.fromgirltogirl.com/reproductive-rights-and-roe-v-wade-an-overview/
| #supremecourt | #roevwade | #womensrights | #humanrights | #health4her
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There should always be safe spaces for children. But we don’t do enough to protect their child rights and human rights.
| #humanrights | #childrights | #civilrights | #humanityfirst
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Let’s go President #Biden . I still miss calling Uncle Joe.
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| #police | #policereform | #policing | #biden | #joebiden | #humanity | #humanrights | #civilrights (at USA)
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There is nothing wrong caring about people’s human rights & civil rights.
I care about Black people.
I care about law enforcement.
I have family members in law enforcement.
I have black people in my family.
My best friend family is a law enforcement family. They are also black.
We also know how to shoot guns.
But we use them in responsible ways.
We also care about child rights and overall humanity.
In short, support on American issues are multi-dimensional.
And that’s just fine.
| #humanrights | #civilrights | #gunrights | #policing | #executiveorder | #police | #humanity | #humanityfirst | #joebiden | #biden | #politics
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Let’s go President #Biden .
| #Policing | #Biden | #Joebiden | #executiveorder | #humanityfirst | #Police | #humanrights | #humanity | #georgefloyd
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Henk van Rensbergen Photography
A bathtub sits in a decaying bathroom in the Abkhazia Parliament building. The expansive structure at the capital in Sukhumi was badly damaged by fire during the conflict of the early 1990s.
Bullets whizzed through the air and shells decimated the capital during the Abkhaz-Georgian War that began in August 1992 and lasted 13 months.
Significant human rights abuses were recorded on all sides and Sukhumi was the site of a months-long siege, which resulted in heavy civilian casualties.
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Happy World Oceans Day !
Every 8 June, we have an opportunity to raise global awareness of the benefits humankind derives from the ocean and our individual and collective duty to use its resources sustainably.
Future generations will also depend on the ocean for their livelihoods!
Together let’s celebrate all that the ocean gives us every day: from the oxygen we breathe to the inspiration that moves our poets.
“No Water, No Life. No Blue, no Green.”
Sylvia Earle
Aerial view of the Indian Ocean by Morgan Maassen
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For those that don’t kno I support straight, gay, && lesbian marriage. Why? Bc I feel if I want to marry the woman of my dreams one day and be happy in love then damn it I should be able to. I’m not bothering you :) ❤ #HumanRights #love #MarriageRight #equality #MarriageEquality #free #straight #lesbian #MyLife
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Happy Halloween & Go Vote! #skeletons #scary #halloween #fullmoon #2020 #humanrights #votehimout #weneedchange (at Brooklyn, New York)
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Your friendly neighborhood Bette Davis here, urging you to give a sh*t. #vote #yourvotecounts #actup #jinkxmonsoon #transrightsarehumanrights #gayrights #lesbianrights #humanrights #jagcphotography #bettedavis
#rupaulsdragrace #thegingersnapped #rpdr #instagood #photography #photographer #lgbt #instagay #instagram #instalgbt #ginger #wig #dragqueen #norfolkpress (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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MoodBoardMix Stand With Ukraine!
Sunflowers (sunyashniki) are especially loved in Ukraine, where golden fields of them face the sunrise in the east. They are Ukraine’s national flower, and in folk imagery represent the warmth and power of the sun, which was worshipped by pre-Christian Slavs.
To my Ukrainian followers, stay safe and strong !
Love you all❤️
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On this Memorial Day, a day of remembrance for many, it’s crucial that we also reflect on the current state of our country. I spend much of my time thinking about borders and border crossings, but very little of that is focused on my own country’s border with Mexico. There has been a series of alarming policy developments over the last year, and particularly the last month, as well as critical, eye-opening journalism capturing these developments and placing them in historical context.
First and foremost, for me at least, is the administration’s new policy of separating children from parents at the border and holding them in separate detention facilities. Allegedly a measure to ‘deter’ unaccompanied minors, this policy seems unconstitutional at the very least, not to mention unnecessary and cruel.
Here are a series of important articles on this topic:
From immigration attorney Sharon Phillips: Immigrant women, children abused by gangs need our protection
ACLU report: Records claim border agents neglected, abused migrant kids
Trump made an immigration crackdown a priority. Jeff Sessions made it a reality.
Of course, the Trump administration is not the first to implement legally and morally dubious policies at the US/Mexico border. Radiolab put out an excellent three-part series last month that explains how the Clinton administration knowingly implemented a desert-as-deterrence policy in the 1990s that dramatically increased the number of migrant deaths in subsequent decades. Listen here. Part 2 is particularly harrowing.
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Hamed Maiye, “Untitled” (life under the smog), 2021,
Grease/oil, pigment, acrylic spray, paint on paper
“The climate crisis is racist because it exists in a system that is racist”
— Minnie Rahman
Part of an exhibition by Black artists and artists of colour exploring the relationship between racial justice and climate justice.
https://thecolouroftheclimatecrisis.art/
The Colour of the Climate Crisis is a project by Do The Green Thing, an environmental social initiative that uses creativity to combat the climate crisis. Come say hi.
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Professor Ed Hawkins’ data visualisation, Warming Stripes!
It started at Hay Literary Festival. Professor Ed Hawkins was trying to find a way to communicate climate change to an audience that might not be able to interpret scientific graphics or data.
Those stripes — shades of red and blue representing hot and cold temperatures — chart temperature changes from 1850 to 2018, running from left to right. They look like a bar code, albeit a vibrant one with a serious message. Hawkins, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading, says that the impact was immediately obvious.
That data visualisation was based on local temperatures for the festival’s location in rural Wales. Since the 2018 festival, Hawkins has worked on a graphic for global temperatures. Most recently, it took centre stage at a very different festival: as the backdrop for Enter Shikari’s set at Reading.
On 21 June 2019, the summer solstice, he launched a website where users can view and download climate stripes for the cities they live in, from Vienna to Verona. So far there have been more than a million downloads.
Warming Stripes from 1850-2020 for GLOBE / Europe / Asia / North America.
Courtesy: https://showyourstripes.info/ & designweek.co.uk/
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19th World Day Against the Death Penalty
Women and the death penalty, an invisible reality
Observed every 10 October, the World Day Against the Death Penalty unifies the global abolitionist movement and mobilizes civil society, political leaders, lawyers, public opinion and more to support the call for universal abolition of capital punishment. The day encourages and consolidates the political and general awareness of the world-wide movement against the death penalty.
On 10 October 2021, the World Day will be dedicated to women who risk being sentenced to death, who have received a death sentence, who have been executed, and to those who have had their death sentences commuted, exonerated, or pardoned.
Extensive discrimination based on sex and gender, often coupled with other elements of identity, such as age, sexual orientation, disability, and race expose women to intersecting forms of structural inequalities. Such prejudices can weigh heavily on sentencing, including when women are stereotyped as an evil mother, a witch, or a femme fatale. This discrimination can also lead to critical mitigating factors not being considered during arrest and trial, such as being subjected to gender-based violence and abuse.
While working towards the complete abolition of the death penalty worldwide for all crimes and for all genders, it is crucial to sound the alarm on the discrimination women face and the consequences such discrimination can have on a death sentence.
THE DEATH PENALTY IN PRACTICE:
(Statistics from Amnesty International unless otherwise specified)
- Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide estimates that there are at least 800 women sentenced to death around the world.
- At least 7 countries are confirmed to have a woman under the sentence of death in 2020: Ghana, Japan, Maldives, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, Zambia. The number of countries is, in reality much higher, like in Saudi Arabia and Iran, but where there is no accurate breakdown of death-row statistics by gender.
- In 2020, amongst the 483 individuals who were executed, 16 were women located in Egypt, Iran, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
- 108 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes.
- 28 countries are abolitionist in practice
- 55 countries are retentionist.
- In 2020, the 5 countries that carried out the most executions were: China, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.
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HAPPY WORLD ANIMAL DAY!
World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated annually on October 4.
It is the 96th World Animal Welfare Day on 4th October, 2021 with the theme for world animal day 2021 is “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet.”
It’s celebrated in different ways in every country, irrespective of nationality, religion, faith or political ideology.
Through increased awareness and education we can create a world where animals are always recognised as sentient beings and full regard is always paid to their welfare.
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International Safe Abortion Day!
Abortion must be SAFE!
Legal abortion saves the lives of millions of women,
Abortion must be legalized EVERYWHERE!
28 September marks International Safe Abortion Day. For this year’s international day of action, stakeholders around the world are coming together behind the call “Make Unsafe Abortion History”.
Access to safe abortion is time-sensitive essential health care. It is included in numerous international, regional and national legally binding treaties – providing access to safe abortion is imperative for women and girls to achieve their human and reproductive rights.
Unsafe abortion remains a preventable public health tragedy and a violation of women and girls’ human rights. It accounts for 13% of global maternal mortalities, with hundreds of thousands of survivors living with long-term complications, including infertility and chronic pain.
With121 million unintended pregnancies each year – and few countries with legal to safe abortion – too many women and girls who do not want to become parents are forced to remain pregnant. This not only represents a denial of their autonomy, but it may also have serious consequences for their mental health and access to opportunities to achieve their life goals.
For many women, this is so unacceptable that they are forced to place themselves in extreme danger by undergoing unsafe abortions. We know it is women and girls who are often already marginalised – such as those living in poverty and rural areas – who pay the greatest toll and are at the highest risk of unsafe abortion, as well as maternal mortality and morbidity.
Originally “Campaña 28 Septiembre” (or “Campaign of September 28”), the day of action was declared official in 2011 by the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights, and renamed in 2015. The new name, “International Safe Abortion Day”, took aim at unifying the different participating organizations and their respective political aims.
The history of this day is rooted in slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, specifically in the concept of the “free womb”. “Free womb” laws were enacted for slave women who had been killing their children after birth to spare them from a life of slavery. The law ensured that children born to slave women would be considered free from birth; before the law was put into place, children born to slave mothers were automatically considered the property of the slave owner. The day of action was adopted by many groups to promote universal access to safe abortions and education about reproductive health.
Text Courtesy of figo.org / americanwomensservices.com/
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Rafał Milach, “I Am Warning You” (GOST, 2021)
Photographs of three international border walls: the American-Mexican, Hungarian-Serbian-Croatian, and Berlin walls.
Milach’s sharply observed, perceptive images raise questions about how the physical presence and functions of border walls impact our sense of identity and memory.
“Mexico, Baja California, Tijuana 05.2019 Improvised shelter by the Mexican–US border wall.” (© Rafał Milach / Magnum Photos),
“Mexico, Mexicali 11.2019 Construction of the new border wall between US and Mexico. On February 23rd 2018, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office published The Final Report on Border Wall Mockup and Prototype Test. It presents, amongst other, various breaching and scaling tests of the eight future border wall prototypes proposed by Homeland Security in response to Donald Trump’s Executive Order #13767. The prototypes were nothing else, but a demonstration of power. They were not integrated into the new structure of the border wall that had been gradually replacing the old recycled Vietnam War helicopter landing panels. The project reflects upon the design of geographical and political division. It is dedicated to architecture of control and its impact on local landscape and urban structures.” (© Rafał Milach / Magnum Photos),
“HUNGARY. Matty 10.2019 Croatian-Hungarian border at the nature reserve.” (© Rafał Milach / Magnum Photos),
“Germany. Berlin 10.2019 Piece of the Berlin Wall acquired at the Mauerpark flea market at former death strip. Price: 3 euro.” (© Rafał Milach / Magnum Photos)
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Collecting Water from Driedout Riverbeds…
Around 263 million people globally have access to water sources that are considered safe, but need to spend at least 30 minutes walking or queuing to collect their water. And the task of providing water for households falls disproportionately to women and girls, especially in rural areas.
Sujon Adhikary Photography / Drone Photo Awards 2021
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Lake Urmia, Iran,
The ferries that once shuttled tourists to and from the little islets in Iran’s Lake Urmia sit rusty, unable to move, on what is rapidly becoming a salt plain.
Just two decades ago, Urmia was the Middle East’s biggest lake, its local economy a thriving tourist center of hotels and restaurants.
Lake Urmia’s demise has been fast. It has more than halved in size – from 5,400 square kilometers (2,085 square miles) in the 1990s to just 2,500 square kilometers (965 square miles) today – according to the Department of Environmental Protection of West Azerbaijan, one of the Iranian provinces where the lake is located.
There are now concerns it will disappear entirely. Such problems are familiar in many parts of the Middle East – where water is simply running out.
The region has witnessed persistent drought and temperatures so high that they are barely fit for human life. Add climate change to water mismanagement and overuse, and projections for the future of water here are grim. Some Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, Iraq and Jordan, are pumping huge amounts of water from the ground for irrigation as they seek to improve their food self-sufficiency.
By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto, Angela Dewan and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN
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Happy International Women’s Day from UI Digital Initiatives!
Pictured is Betsy Thomas, who was Director of the University of Idaho Women’s Center from 1985-1997. Thanks to Thomas’ leadership, the UI Women’s Center to this day remains one of the longest-running, continuously-operating, campus-based women’s centers in the country. A recipient of the Virginia Wolf Distinguished Service Award by the UI Women’s Center, the Rosa Parks Award from the Latah County Human Rights Task Force, and the Athena Woman of the Year Award, Betsy Thomas’ legacy is honored today by the Betsy Thomas Gender Equity Scholarship, offered by the UI Women’s Center.
This photograph comes from the Argonaut Photograph Collection.
Sat in a fecking fire exit for the entire gig tonight. W*****s. #humanrights #treatedlikeadog #intheway
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